LOW RISE // HIGH DENSITY

The Bachelor’s dissertation started by analysing a selection of projects by Neave Brown from the 1960s in Camden Town, London.

With his housing projects, Fleet Road, Maiden Lane, Branche Hill and Alexandra Road, Brown sought to form an answer on modernist mixed-developments.

After a thorough analysis, we used these low-rise high-density projects as an inspiration to create a contemporary, present-day implementation in the center of Antwerp, Belgium.

BSc AR dissertation – June 2022

The area is lacking in open space: public space, green space and meeting space. How can we create this for the future inhabitants? How can we make the site attractive for them and for the neighbourhood? How can we give some quality back to the city?

Creating and defining existing, open space is essential for the context, as well as giving future inhabitants plenty of green, collective space. Our process started with a simple typology; a building block surrounding open space.

Because of the large scale of the open space, it would be difficult for inhabitants to appropriate it as their own garden. We try to make the scale more manageable – more human-centered – by dividing the open space into multiple smaller ones, while keeping a continuous connection by a central axis.